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Raising her handgun, Selda Hepkeskin pumps five rounds into a target, each time inching closer to the red heart on the stencilled torso of a man. “For me it’s an adrenalin thing,” Ms Hepkeskin, 31, says. “There’s a perception that only men can use guns but, for a woman, it gives you the feeling you can achieve anything a man can.”

With Turkey facing a series of killings by jilted husbands and former lovers, women are trying to level the playing field.

Now, a charity has provoked controversy by vowing to give battered women firearms lessons to protect themselves against